First and foremost:1. I never got to play online. Didn't have Live on the OG Xbox and when I did it was many years later when no one played anymore. As such, my arsenals are not designed for PvP.2. I didn't even know there were updates for skills/skill additions. Therefore I've been working with the base 300 skills.

0 Aura (Nature/Ki/Faith)

My thought process for this was is it possible to run an arsenal with no aura in it? Would you still be able to win? Turns out there's some really great skills that cost 0. The main combo is Trance + Scream of Evil. Then when you hit that 7 Health mark, Trance + Lingering Flame. Rebirth is terrific as it restores 10 Health but reduces your level to 0, but it's 0 anyway.

Drain's an interesting concept but you'll want to drop the meditations and ki school since that's all it does. When you use a 3 school case you get -3 aura regen. So even if you get 2 mediations in a match it will only be like a 2 school case with 1 regen.

Welcome. It's really exciting to see players that never got to play the game on Live still around, you're going to love it.

Also, if you never downloaded the skill updates you never would have found a match since it would only match you with players using the same skill versions (1.0, 1.1 update, 1.2 update). Early Xbox Live days for sure.